Housing and the Welfare State - The Development of Housing Policy in Britain

This new analysis of housing policy in Britain since 1945 challenges conventional notions of the relationship between housing and the welfare state. It argues that housing policy in the years after the Second World War is better understood in terms of market restructuring. However, in more recent years housing has been at the forefront of changes that have drawn it closer to other welfare state services, and the modernisation of public services is continuing the trend.>

Product details

• Authors: Peter Malpass
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2005
• EAN: 9780333962091
• ISBN: 978-0-333-96209-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Politics and business; B, European Politics, Social Sciences, Politics & government, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Public Policy, Great Britain—Politics and government, British Politics